Call for Papers

2nd Int. Workshop on Engineering Distributed Objects (EDO 2000)

November 2-3, 2000
University of California, Davis, USA

EDO 2000 is the second international workshop on software engineering for distributed object systems. EDO 2000 continues EDO'99, the first workshop in this series that was held in conjunction with ICSE '99.

Distributed object technologies - as exemplified by CORBA and the CORBA Services, COM+, EJB and the J2EE - are increasingly being adopted by various enterprises as a fundamental technology for their IT infrastructures. As a consequence, extensive industry practice of using the technologies is being gained. At the same time, the technologies continue to advance and new functionality and services continue to be introduced.

In order to use the existing and emerging functions of distributed object technologies effectively, and to better meet today's demanding business and computing requirements, advances in software engineering methods and techniques for distributed objects are strongly needed as well.  Software engineering for distributed objects is the research area that provides solutions of proven practice for issues and problems that are unique to systems employing distributed object technologies. EDO is the premier workshop that brings together the research and practice community of software engineering for distributed objects.


Topics of Interest

The program committee seeks high quality papers related to all aspects of distributed object software engineering.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
  • Modeling and specification of distributed objects (UML, XML, ADLs and IDLs)
  • Software architecture and architectural styles for distributed objects
    • Impact of middleware on software architecture design
    • Ensuring high quality-of-services including performance, reliability, security
  • Use of CORBA and CORBA Services, COM+, EJB and J2EE
  • Selection of distributed object middleware
  • Software development methods and processes
    • for enterprise application integration using distributed object technology
    • for database integration and distributed object transactions
    • for integration with Web technologies
    • for integration with message-oriented middleware (MOM)

How to submit?

Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. Submissions must be in English and should not exceed 5000 words.

Submissions should be made electronically in PDF and be sent by e-mail to

Wolfgang Emmerich
Dept. of Computer Science
University College London
Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
E-Mail: w.emmerich@cs.ucl.ac.uk
WWW:  http://www.distributed-objects.com/EDO2000/
A separate email with the following information on the paper should be sent to both program co-chairs Wolfgang Emmerich w.emmerich@cs.ucl.ac.uk and Stefan Tai stai@us.ibm.com:
  • title of the paper
  • abstract of the paper
  • all authors with affiliations and email
  • contact author address
  • declaration of intent to attend EDO 2000 if the paper is accepted
  • indication whether the attending author is a student, who needs financial help

  • (a limited number of bursaries are kindly provided by IBM Research)

Deadlines
 
July 31 2000 Electronic paper submission
September 15 2000 Acceptance Notification
October 15, 2000 Camera-ready copy Submission

Publication

Submitted papers will be refereed by the international program committee. It is planned to publish accepted papers after the workshop in a volume of Springer Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

Organization
 
General Chair
Volker Gruhn University of Dortmund, Germany
Programme Co-Chairs
Wolfgang Emmerich University College London, UK
Stefan Tai IBM Watson Research, USA
Organizing Chair
Prem Devambu University of California Davis, USA
Programme Committee
Jean Bezivin University of Nantes, France
Gordon Blair Lancaster University, UK
Alfred Bröckers Adesso, Germany
Peter Croll University of Wollongong, Australia
Elisabetta Di Nitto Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Alfonso Fuggetta Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Willi Hasselbring University of Tilburg, The Netherlands
Jusuke Hashimoto NEC, Japan
Walter Huersch Zuehlke, Switzerland
Arno Jacobson INRIA, France
Mehdi Jazayeri TU Vienna, Austria
Gerti Kappel  University of Linz, Austria
Wojtek Kozacynski Rational, USA
Bernd Krämer FU Hagen, Germany
Jeff Magee Imperial College, UK
Nenad Medvidovic University of Southern California, USA
Neil Roodyn Cognitech, UK
David Rosenblum University of California Irvine, USA
Isabelle Rouvellou IBM Watson Research, USA
Walter Schwarz DG Bank, Germany
Dirk Slama Shinka Technologies, Germany
Daniel Steinmann UBS, Switzerland
Alfred Strohmeier EPFL, Switzerland
Stan Sutton IBM Watson Research, USA
Last edited: 20 June 2000